Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3807, David Frisbie, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
born
Friskie, David
R. 3807
CONTENTS

No. 38.558.
David Frisbee's heirs
Conn.
Letter to C. H. Barton July 4/63
3807
Act June 7. 1832

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
3807.
over
P. O.
Dawn Friske
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____ REJECTED _____, 18 ____
Discharged: _____, 18 ____
Application filed: _____, 18 ____
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 ____

Letter to Barbour July 22/32 - States that testimony alluded to in declaration did not accompany it - When received it would be considered
April 23. 1853
App d of David Frisbie dec d
Court
Act 7 th June 1832
or
C. F. Barbour
West Reinstated Court.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Commissioner

As to the journals, I have not the means of knowing when it came in my possession and cannot recollect, but the hand writing is similar to my father's is dated 1776, the letter is dated 1777 that must be his as it is directed to his wife (my mother) soon after his marriage Miranda F. Holmes

State of Connecticut } ss. County of Litchfield }
On this 13 th day of April A.D. 1853, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the State and County aforesaid Miranda F. Holmes, a resident of the town of Winchester, State and County aforesaid, aged 58 years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension money to which she may be entitled on account of the services of her father. She declares that her father was David Finnie and that he entered the service of the United States as a soldier on or about the 13 th day of August A.D. 1776, under Gen. Heath and as she believes Col. Hinman and Capt. Lanning.
She further states, that her father the said David Finnie, at the time he entered the army, resided in the town of Bethlehem State, and County aforesaid, and that he served at New York and at Kingsbridge, and that he died on the 3 rd day of July A.D. 1830, and resided at the time of his death in the town of Winchester, State and County aforesaid. She further states that she has a letter written by him while in the service, which she presents to accompany this declaration, excepting which she has no documentary evidence unless it be a daily journal which she has in her possession and which she cannot state positively to his, but she believes it to have been kept by him while in said service. She further states that the family record which she has presented and which accompanies this declaration is in the hand writing of her father up to the time of his death and is the only family record of which she ever had any knowledge, and to which she refers the Department for such necessary facts as can be derived therefrom. She hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that her father's name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and Miranda F. Holmes year aforesaid before me
Samuel W. Love Justice Peace

has in her possession, and which she cannot state positively is not, but she believes it to have been kept by him while in said service. She further states that the family record which she has presented and which accompanies this declaration is in the hand writing of her father up to the time of his death and is the only family record of which she ever had any knowledge, and to which she refers the Department for such necessary facts as can be derived therefrom. She hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that her father's name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Miranda F. Holmes Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year aforesaid before me
Samuel W. Love Justice Peace
We, the undersigned, residents of the town of Winchester, State of Connecticut, County of Litchfield, hereby certify, that we were well acquainted with David Forbush above named, and that we believe the declarant, Miranda F. Holmes, with whom we are also well acquainted, to be the daughter of the said David Forbush.
E. H. H. H. E. W. Pitkin
I hereby certify, that with the persons who have certified above I am well acquainted and that they are persons of the highest credibility. I also further certify that I was well acquainted with the said David Forbush and also am well acquainted with the declarant Miranda F. Holmes and believe her to be the daughter of the said Forbush and that the facts contained in her declaration are true.
Samuel W. Love Justice Peace
Mrs. Holmes would respectfully inform the Department, that an examination of the muster roll having been refused on the application of her friend, she cannot state as definitely in regard to her father's services as she would doubtless have been enabled to do, had such an examination been permitted, and hopes inasmuch as it is no delinquency on her part, she may not be charged with a want of facts in her declaration, derivable from no other source.
She also desires, that all communications respecting this matter may be addressed to A. F. Barker West-Winsted, Conn.

I, John P. C. Marker Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That — Samuel H. Coe — was, from the fourth day of July, A. D. 1852, to the fourth day of July, A. D. 1854, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of — Litchfield — in said State, duly appointed and commissioned — having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations.
And I further certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said — Samuel H. Coe — to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 13 th day of — April — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty TWO
John P. C. Marker, Secretary of State.